read, and he's just wasting time.
But, you may ask, why is writing necessary? Well, the physical act of writing, with your own
hand, brings words and sentences more sharply before your mind and preserves them better in
Is it false respect, you may ask, to preserve intact a beautifully printed book, an elegantly bound edition? Of
course not. I'd no more scribble all over a first edition of "Paradise Lost" than I'd give my baby a set of crayons
through, most of them dipped into, but all of them as clean and shiny as the day they were bought. (This person
would probably like to make books his own, but is restrained by a false respect for their physical appearance.)
There are two ways in which one can own a book. The first is the